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Strange Phonebook results

Rohit Srivastwa [PersonRank 10]

Thursday, November 29, 2007
16 years ago2,666 views

I queried for the current time in California
http://www.google.com/search?q=time+in+CA

See the weird phonebook result...

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

How did the "AM In Time" get into the name of "A Momen", is it a company name?

In case this disappears:
http://blogoscoped.com/files/am-in-time.png

Roger Browne [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

The business is presumably named "A Moment In Time".

Rohit Srivastwa [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Wishelist item:
how about Google calculating

2pm EDT = ? IST

Its just simple mathematics but will be a very handy tool :)

/pd [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

ACtually Rohit, the query should be translated directly into the time zone that is associated with the IP address..

not just calculating time(Zone1) == Time(Zone2)..rather dynamic results based on where the physically query (zone2) is being made from!!

David Hetfield [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

[OT]
Notice the phone icon is new.. :)

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

> Notice the phone icon is new

Eh? It was there in January this year:
http://blogoscoped.com/files/onebox-museum/phonebook-results.png
Via: http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-01-17-n67.html

David Hetfield [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Oh, sorry..
I never saw this one before..
Just this one:
www.google.com/intl/en/images/phone_img2.gif

But hey..
I'm getting a different clock icon now..
http://www.google.com/chart?chs=40x30&chc=localtime&cht=cf&chd=s:CB&sig=3eax9ysracLlacs8eXCtJFohkMc
(Notice the change: http://blogoscoped.com/forum/116757.html#id116758)

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